What would possess some moron to create a fake fund raising scheme is beyond me, however, this is exactly what someone did.

A fake message being spread around BlackBerry Messenger says the following:

Because of what has transpired in Haiti recently, Blackberry has decided to help out and give 35 cents for the cause when you pass this message along to your friends on BBM.

This clearly isn’t an official message from RIM. For starters, RIM would never refer to themselves as Blackberry. Secondly, Blackberry is actually spelled BlackBerry… Both Bs are capitalized.

Research in Motion is giving whomever started this message the benefit of the doubt. An official RIM spokesperson says maybe, “the message originated from a legitimately confused user (who misunderstood some other unrelated news about charitable organizations raising funds through the texting medium), or perhaps the information morphed after passing through a string of people”.

If you do want to legitimately donate to the relief efforts for earthquake victims in Hati, I sincerely hope that you do, text HAITI to 90999. A $10 donation will be made to the Red Cross and a $10 charge added to your mobile bill.

Word on the street is that Research in Motion has updated the BlackBerry Messenger Servers to the latest version and inadvertently pushed out an OTA download link to some BlackBerry Messenger users. A lot of us have already downloaded a leaked version of the upgrade which we have been calling BlackBerry Messenger 5. We hear, however, that BBM5 won’t be the official name.

Whatever RIM decides to call the next version of BlackBerry Messenger, it shouldn’t be too long before it is officially released to the public.

BlackBerry Messenger hasn’t really been significantly updated since it first came out years ago, however, judging by these pictures of an updated BlackBerry Messenger found over on BGR, the new BlackBerry to BlackBerry instant messaging platform has been completely overhauled.

I am not quite sure why, but, it seems like I have been using BlackBerry Messenger an awful lot lately. Like most other IM appliactions BlackBerry Messenger is an incredibly efficient way of communicating short messages to other BlackBerry users.

I am sure that I’ve reviewed it several times before here in so I will spare you another “this is BlackBerry Messenger and what here is what it does” post as RIM really hasn’t made any major changes to the application in some time. I’ll just tell you to download here it if you somehow managed to delete it off of your device.

Just in case, however, there are any BlackBerry Messenger developers that work at RIM and by chance happen to be reading this post, what I will say is this… Will you for the love of all things good and cuddly add some type of desktop support so that I can access BlackBerry Messenger through BlackBerry Desktop Manager or something?